salugi
nounEtymology Unknown. Attested in print from the 1950s; likely used earlier.
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New York, US, Informal A keep-away game in which children throw around an object with the aim of keeping it away from a particular child (often the owner of the object) or from another group of children; keepings off.
- They had seized the tan derby of one of their number; three others in sharp suits and silk waistcoats were tossing it around in a wild game of salugi.1956, Gerald Green, The Last Angry Man, page 193:
- Then he grabs a hat off Jim, a guy about my age who never says anything, and they all playing saloogie around him with it like a bunch of kids.1966, Jay Neugeboren, Big Man, page 55:
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- the taste of pencils and Louis Bocca's ear / torn off by the fence in a game of salugi.1995, August Kleinzahler, “The Old Schoolyard in August”, in The American Poetry Review, volume 24, page 24: